James Turley looks at the role of new media in politics One of the more curious features of the western media coverage of the recent events in Iran has been the prominence given to social networking websites. In particular, Twitter - which allows users to easily distribute short and typically frivolous messages to those who sign up ...
Facebook (FB) is a peculiar world occupied by office workers, students and the unemployed. On it you can follow the latest intrigues of this or that friend, stalk the weirdest sectarians and at times find out somebody’s politics by where they post. The RMT, the Stalinist CPB and the “Trotskyist” Socialist Party of England and ...
First published in Communist Student no.3 The Stop the War Coalition’s student grouping has censored a critical article on the question of Iran, submitted by CS member David Isaacson - an indication of the lack of democracy that still cripples much of the left Any Facebook-using comrades who looked at the new Stop the War Students group ...